You know you are getting on a bit when....

[hotmetal]

Oh dear, I can remember not only the landline number from my childhood but also the combination of the lock I had for my bicycle that I used to ride to primary school on when I was 8 or 9. 4512... but I can't remember the 3 digits on the back of my credit card despite using it to pay for shopping every week...

 

[BlacknTan]

When I was a kid, my Dad made $100 US per week. I was bragging about it to my friend... guess what his Dad made? $100 per week..

When I started my work career, I made $1.65 per hour... and I wanted to buy a car and take girls to nice places... Good luck!

 

[MPF9]

You can remember your house phone number from when you were a child, 68667, but not your current mobile number.

You cannot remember your car registration number, you go outside to have a look, you say hello to the cat on the way back in to the house and by the time you sit down you have forgotten the number again.

You blame the cat.

I can remember Car Reg of my Dads car in 1950 when I was 10.

 

[UKRob]

You know you’re getting on a bit when you start reading threads like this.

 

[chazt]

…when you’d rather sleep

 

[Shaverrific666]

I'm not that old but I do find that when climbing stairs there is always a distinct sound of castanets somewhere in the distance.

 

[Chris]

You’d be surprised at how many younger folks can’t name all the Beatles.

Conversely, I feel somewhat less old having missed all the fuss over the Beatles because they broke up before I was born.

 

[HereticHermit]

You can remember your house phone number from when you were a child, 68667, but not your current mobile number.

You cannot remember your car registration number, you go outside to have a look, you say hello to the cat on the way back in to the house and by the time you sit down you have forgotten the number again.

You blame the cat.

^^ ^^ This ^^ ^^
I still remember the land line phone number we had at home when I was teen. I had to ask people their mobile number and ring them during meeting such that I am able to send my number. I wouldn't remember my own number even if my life was dependent on it. Embarrassed and fed up with, when a Tel-com client offered me a very premium number for free, I jumped at it, only to regret it later when I started getting spam calls and SMS from 'friendship clubs and massage parlors'. They figured someone with such a fancy number has to be some slick drug dealer or something of a dandy. I came back to my original number that I couldn't remember, and nobody cared to spam or solicit.
I bought my first mobile after watching this advert
Ericsson | One black coffee, please! - YouTube
(As an aside, when mobiles came about my father always insisted knowing landline number from people trying to do business with him. He steadfastly maintained that mobile phone with a mobile number is close friend of swindlers and bounders. People with fixed landlines are majorly transparent and upfront about their business.) I have been paying a small retention fee via bank auto debit for 2 years after the Govt agency quietly hived the business away along with assets, but my old man had hopes that landline will get revived under private management

 

[chazt]

Conversely, I feel somewhat less old having missed all the fuss over the Beatles because they broke up before I was born.

They were heady times, Chris. The mania was palpable. I was five years old when they exploded here, and have older cousins by a few years (girls) who were bonkers for the group as were probably most adolescents of the day. The Beatles were on the radio half dozen times every hour. They were everywhere.

 

[BlacknTan]

They were heady times, Chris. The mania was palpable. I was five years old when they exploded here, and have older cousins by a few years (girls) who were bonkers for the group as were probably most adolescents of the day. The Beatles were on the radio half dozen times every hour. They were everywhere.

It's impossible to overstate Charlie's description..

I was 15 when The Beatles came to America, and my cousin in Wales had been sending records over for some time. The mid 1960's was the start of a social, political, sexual and every other kind of upheaval one could imagine. It was a revolution in style and thinking. Young people were speaking out about issues as never before, and The Beatles, and later, other groups of the British Invasion, were at the forefront.

It's hard to make anyone who did not live through those times realize the importance and impact of the music.. it was a phenomenon!

 

[bartje-p]

great topic, you had to pick me up from the floor every now and then....

and by the way, the 6210 was a lot younger, but just as good as the 3310.... just saying ;-)

 

[Chris]

great topic, you had to pick me up from the floor every now and then....

and by the way, the 6210 was a lot younger, but just as good as the 3310.... just saying ;-)

I don't know why the 3310 gets all the attention, the 3210 was the innovative one.

 

[MPF9]

When you remember sitting at the Bank Managers Desk to discuss a loan, and being offered a drink.

 

[Optometrist]

When my original internet from Tiscali had a maximum download speed range of 1.6-18 mbps

And you had to insert the CD to install it. Don't think I ever achieved more than 3 mbps with Tiscali.

 

[JamieM]

I know 64 is not particularly old, but I honestly don't see myself or relate to that age even though the number fits I'm not ready to wear it just yet, maybe 50 is more suitable at this present time. PS Here's me and my Wife more than 35 years ago in Barcelona, I wish I could click my fingers and go back just for a week or two.